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  1. Here is a link to epiphone products in the Atlanta, Georgia (USA)area on this page there are a couple FT models. One 6 string (FT-134) and one 12 string (FT-160). https://atlanta.craigslist.org/search/sss?sort=date&query=epiphone
  2. Cant wait to hear and see what he did for you on it and I'm close enough I may keep my FT132 and have him make it right. Dont forget us here!
  3. Oh no.. I carefully released alot of tension of the truss rod filed the bridge nut slightly and installed the Martin silk and steel.. it sounds awesome and very playable now!
  4. Oh.. and by the way since yall been so kind I'll share that auction site I referred to: shopgoodwill.com Good luck!
  5. https://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/msg/6014600427.html Here it is!... and thank you everyone.
  6. How do I attach photos here?..
  7. Well she made it just in enough time for me to unpack, glance over briefly, and leave for work. Fighting off mild disappointment, I'm trying to keep in mind shes over 40, an epiphone (albeit mij) and remembering also the little that I paid for her. Slight hint that her belly is attempting to bulge with very slight bridge lift. Which can account at least in part for concern #2 the obvious neck bowing. Can I even adjust a set neck?.. anyhoo there it is fellow epiphone fans.
  8. Should arrive today!.. Lol I'm a little excited ..can you tell? I wonder where I can find a hard case for it... hmmm
  9. Thanks for the welcome! I noticed that I failed to share the price I paid for my win... $90.99! After S&H my total was $121.99. I'm pretty sure I will regret turning y'all fellow epiphone fans on to the auction site but.... ugh.. hmmm. See this is hard because I'm from Kalamazoo and I have had multiple family members that worked at the plant.. I've had a passion to one day own an actual 1964 epiphone acoustic since... well as close as my memory gets me to 1964.. the year I was born. Having come from meager means and then serving 20 years as a career U.S. Navy man with a family, I couldn't afford to spend the cash back when they were still affordable so excited I finally scored (praying) an Epiphone at least!.. but the dream of one day when I land that ultimate auction find still lives on!.. Yes 1960s Epiphones retain respect and for sound reasons (<--see what I did there? SOUND reasons.. lol)
  10. Hello everybody, First time posting here after lurking a couple weeks. I found this forum while investigating some finds at an online auction I've been visiting obsessively, that I hesitate to share because it seems a "honey hole", but anyway.. lots of good info here! As a matter of fact I am currently waiting for delivery on an online auction purchase from that same site. It is a FT-132 model having the (transition era) Kalamazoo blue label with neither "union made" or "made in Japan" indicated. Ibelieve the FT-132 was produced at Masumotu (sp?) 1972-73. It has a set neck and best I can find here and epiwiki it doesn't have an adjustable truss (?). So again.. anyway :) with fingers and toes crossed (but especially praying) I am waiting, praying that it was a great deal I imagine it to be, that it not have belly bulge.. or a crazy warp in the neck or anywhere else for that matter. By photos I can see chips and nicks around the headstock and a screw seems to be missing from one of the tuners back.. and of course it needs strings. But while waiting and searching I have learned much I did not know but one thing obvious to me is that the 70-79 Epiphones especially FTs seem to be the stepchild many players and dealers prefer to forget. Where is the love for this still very playable and loveable, regardless of it being laminated and not solid top, model. Anyone feel the same or wish to comment why they dislike or choose to ignore the validity of this series?
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